Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-26
DEnoCRATIC RULE.

skirmishinss for advantages Of position
in the ensuing spring battle for city Officers
will o commence and, of course, while
politics will be ignored by many at thepols,
the usual charges will be made by the op.
position against Democrats and the efici.
cheney Of Democratic rule. Very likely
there are many good, honest, innocent par.
tisans who will take stock in these charges
and treasure it up together with other
strange and unreliable information they
have derived from the same source, but af.
ter all. the question Is to what extent will
intelligent and observant people be de-
ceived by them.
To speak plainly and to the point the
voting strength of Butte, as in many other
places, may be roughly classified asfollows:
First, those who blindly think that what
ever Is Republican is right; secondly. those
who blindly think whatever is Republican is
wrong, and thirdly, those who Judge meas
ures without prejudice and by the standard
OF their last results. It is to the latter this
article is addressed.
President Cleveland's administration has
been singularly fruitful OF surprise and dis.
content to both sets of extremists, and
equally full of delight and satisfaction to
the conservative masses. It has been
clean. wholesome, patriotic. Those who
expected disturbance, revolution, chaos,
have been disappointed. Those who ex-
pected that the Democracy would shrink
from responsibility, or that, assuming it,
would prove inadequate, have
found that they counted without their
host. The fact is, that the Democratic
party has come into power after an exile of
nearly q generation, and that the ma
chinsry OF government has gone along with
out an interruption or break in conse-
quence. No public interest has suffered,
public good has been imperiled. The
country has kept up it's march of develop
ment and the tenor Of our common pro-
yress has been preserved if not aeceler-
ated.
So much for President Cleveland's adj
nin%istration of National affairs. The rec
ord OF Democratic rule in Montana il
fattering. With a couple excep-
ions both branches OF the Territorial
Legislative Assembly have been Democrat
C. The party has been conservative and
in the management of Territorial
matters. and to-day there is not a Terri
'ory in the Union with y better financial
moving and with a clearer title to pros
'erity than Montana. Coming down to
ounty and city affairs, the Democrats,
Vhen they have had thepower, have proved
heir loyalty to their trusts, and their
obedience to the will of their
constituents. On the whole, it is impossi-
lie for the most enthusiastic critic to point
o a single1instance OF deterioration in Ma
ional, Territorial or county or city af
alrs, whereas the great neutral patriotic
masses must and do realize that a fresher,
urer and more vigorous political atmos-
here has been breathed into every depart
'ent OF the Government-home and Ma
Ional-by the Democracy. |,
Accepting this proposition as a fact, the
eople cannot better their condition by
hardening the great party of the day and
andering after strange geds. Their po-
tical home is in the tents of the DEMO-
otto party, and in the ensuing election /;
'ery consideration Of public interest de. =,
that they should yield it their in ,
Ividual and hearty support. +